District equipment, supplies or materials may not be removed from District property for personal use.
The building Principal or immediate supervisor may authorize staff members to utilize District-owned equipment, supplies, office/classroom space, and materials to develop software and associated documents outside of their work assignment, provided the development of the software is in the best interests of the District. Staff using District equipment, supplies, materials, and software shall comply with all Board of Education policies and applicable law. Staff members authorized to use District equipment assigned to them for use off school grounds (such as, but not limited to, laptop computers, cellular telephones, printers or the like) shall assume responsibility for said equipment. Unless specifically authorized otherwise, all such equipment issued to all employees and/or administrators shall be returned to the District at the end of their annual work year.
Violations of this policy will result in disciplinary action up to and including discharge and/or the filing of criminal charges.1
1MCL 19.141 Care, preservation, and protection of state buildings and property. The Department of Education, among others named in the act, may prescribe rules and regulations for the care, preservation, and protection of buildings and property dedicated and appropriated to the public use and the control and conduct of those coming upon the property. The act authorizes those having control over property and buildings to file a misdemeanor complaint against those who misuse the property. MCL 750.362 - Larcency by conversion. Any person to whom any money, goods or other property, which may be the subject of larceny, shall have been delivered, who shall embezzle or fraudulently convert to his own use, or shall secrete with the intent to embezzle, or fraudulently use such goods, money or other property, or any part thereof, shall be deemed by so doing to have committed the crime of larceny and shall be punished as provided under the Michigan Penal Code. (Underlining added.)
